| Prokaryotes: the unseen majority WB Whitman, DC Coleman, WJ Wiebe Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (12), 6578-6583, 1998 | 6415 | 1998 |
| Precise measurement of the G+ C content of deoxyribonucleic acid by high-performance liquid chromatography M Mesbah, U Premachandran, WB Whitman International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 39 (2 …, 1989 | 4908 | 1989 |
| Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences P Yarza, P Yilmaz, E Pruesse, FO Glöckner, W Ludwig, KH Schleifer, ... Nature Reviews Microbiology 12 (9), 635-645, 2014 | 2541 | 2014 |
| Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology: Volume 3: The Firmicutes P Vos, G Garrity, D Jones, NR Krieg, W Ludwig, FA Rainey, KH Schleifer, ... Springer Science & Business Media, 2011 | 2419* | 2011 |
| Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology. E Stackebrandt, W Frederiksen, GM Garrity, PAD Grimont, P Kämpfer, ... International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 52 (3 …, 2002 | 2050 | 2002 |
| Metabolic, phylogenetic, and ecological diversity of the methanogenic archaea Y Liu, WB Whitman Annals of the new York Academy of Sciences 1125 (1), 171-189, 2008 | 1695 | 2008 |
| The methanogenic bacteria WB Whitman, TL Bowen, DR Boone Prokaryotes 3 (Chapter 9), 165-207, 2006 | 788* | 2006 |
| Quantitative comparisons of 16S rRNA gene sequence libraries from environmental samples DR Singleton, MA Furlong, SL Rathbun, WB Whitman Applied and environmental microbiology 67 (9), 4374-4376, 2001 | 732 | 2001 |
| Relative impacts of land-use, management intensity and fertilization upon soil microbial community structure in agricultural systems K Jangid, MA Williams, AJ Franzluebbers, JS Sanderlin, JH Reeves, ... Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40 (11), 2843-2853, 2008 | 669 | 2008 |
| The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks L Philippot, SGE Andersson, TJ Battin, JI Prosser, JP Schimel, ... Nature Reviews Microbiology 8 (7), 523-529, 2010 | 645 | 2010 |
| Methanogens and the diversity of archaebacteria WJ Jones, DP Nagle Jr, WB Whitman Microbiological Reviews 51 (1), 135-177, 1987 | 619 | 1987 |
| Similarity analysis of DNAs JL Johnson, WB Whitman Methods for general and molecular microbiology, 624-652, 2007 | 596 | 2007 |
| Form‐Cyanobium R Rippka, RW Castenholz, M Herdman Bergey's manual of systematics of archaea and bacteria, 1-3, 2015 | 549* | 2015 |
| Genome sequence of Silicibacter pomeroyi reveals adaptations to the marine environment MA Moran, A Buchan, JM González, JF Heidelberg, WB Whitman, ... Nature 432 (7019), 910-913, 2004 | 531 | 2004 |
| Land-use history has a stronger impact on soil microbial community composition than aboveground vegetation and soil properties K Jangid, MA Williams, AJ Franzluebbers, TM Schmidt, DC Coleman, ... Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43 (10), 2184-2193, 2011 | 509 | 2011 |
| Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major … DW Waite, M Chuvochina, C Pelikan, DH Parks, P Yilmaz, M Wagner, ... International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (11 …, 2020 | 504 | 2020 |
| Methanogenesis Z Lyu, N Shao, T Akinyemi, WB Whitman Current Biology 28 (13), R727-R732, 2018 | 502 | 2018 |
| Diversity and taxonomy of methanogens DR Boone, WB Whitman, P Rouvière Methanogenesis: ecology, physiology, biochemistry & genetics, 35-80, 1993 | 485 | 1993 |
| Bergey's manual of systematics of archaea and bacteria F Rainey, P Kämpfer, M Trujillo, J Chun, P DeVos, B Hedlund, S Dedysh Wiley, 2015 | 445 | 2015 |
| Revised road map to the phylum Firmicutes W Ludwig, KH Schleifer, WB Whitman Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology, 1-13, 2009 | 435* | 2009 |
